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...Virginia, both red state redoubts, incumbent Republicans held off tough challenges. But a large geographical shift of voter sentiment toward the Democrats in the Northeast and Ohio Valley was enough to push Democrats over the top . And two key wins in Arizona spelled trouble for the G.O.P. in the southwest and California...
What makes this approach to sticky sticky is that underpinning the Heaths' advice is an avalanche of social-science research. Simplicity, for example, is intuitively attractive--Southwest's goal of being the low-fare airline is elegant in its minimalism. The Heaths push beyond what sounds like it should work and explain why it actually does...
...Could Southwest include positions on customer comfort and safety ratings in its mission statement? Sure. But that extra information might hinder, not help, employees looking to the corporate ethos as a guide for making decisions...
...something reprehensible while posing as an ally of your opponent. Last month e-mail invitations went out to liberal bloggers to join a YouTube group, urging "Democrats [to] assemble here and share videos." But the videos posted were not exactly typical liberal fodder: one applauded the takeover of the Southwest by Mexico while another mocked the Marines for allowing "dwarves and women" to join. The group was soon called out as fake by liberal bloggers--and is now defunct. It's an indication of how short-lived online pranks can be. But the medium is here to stay...
Viewed from a Black Hawk helicopter 1,000 feet up, there's no sign of the Mexican border in this southwest corner of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. No line in the sand. No fence. Not even a road. Yet it's clear we are flying over a major international thoroughfare. Hundreds of shiny footpaths and tire tracks weave through the desert below, where the temperature on the ground routinely reaches 115? F in the summer. You need to drink a gallon of water an hour to survive in heat like that, and the illegal aliens and smugglers who pounded these...